Wall geckos are poisonous?

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I was going through a new site when I saw something that caught my attention.

It was said that a wall gecko wiped out a full family via its poison.

Read it below;

The sprawling neighbourhood in Ogun State has been thrown into mourning after a family of six was discovered stone dead in the early hours of today.

The source of death is suspected food poisoning after wall gecko had allegedly walked on food.

The victims have been identified as Mr Adeleke John Samuel, a chartered accountant; his wife , two children and two other relatives.

A source told The Eagle that they are believed to have kicked the bucked after eating food on which wall gecko trampled.

The sad event was uncovered when their gateman, Mr Lawal Ojo suspected the unusual quietness in the house at full break of day.

He alerted the neighbours who broke into the house only to discover the bodies of the victims in different rooms

They were all in the sleeping posture, the source said, indicating that they probably passed on in their sleep.

According to an eyewitness: Mrs Ifenatuora Ijeoma, the poison might have ingested in the course of the family’s dinner the night before.

She reiterated that, on close inspection of the kitchen utensils, a dead wall gecko was discovered inside a pot of soup by one of the neighbours.

The Eagle reports that Wall Gecko, a small slippery house lizard native to South East Asia is now found across the world.

It had, at different times, been associated with lethal food poisoning.

According to medical practitioner who simply identified himself as Dr Omotosho : a biologist , “Geckos are ordinarily harmless. However, the lizard carries lots of bacteria in the mouth which can cause serious harm when ingested by humans.”

As at the time of filing this report, the police had waded into the matter, even as the source of death still remained a subject of conjecture.

The deceased man was aged was aged 55, the wife Mrs Pamela Adeleke was aged 50, the children roughly aged between 13 and 19 years old, our findings show.

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Honestly, I doubted and still doubting the realness or possibility of a wall gecko killing the family through the poison on its body.

I never knew that wall geckos are poisonous, all I knew was that, wall gecko carry some bacterias on their body due to where they enter and it maybe cause a little harm to us when we eat a good touched by a wall gecko.

I never liked wall gecko, I detest it the way I hate seeing rat in my house.

I don't know if the story is really true but there's a lesson to learn, ALWAYS KEEP WALL GECKOS AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE especially the kitchen.

Thanks for reading

4th December 2022

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That's scary. I feel sorry for the family.

Yeah, we should not let any animals be in our kitchen.

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Yeah, reading about the news has made me to get some ideas on such things. We should be careful on these little animals close to our foods

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it may be truee tho, because ingesting bacterias are indeed bad for us, hence food poisoning. There are also cases before that food poison leads to death. It's like they ate a whole bunch of germs

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Imagining it is making me sick😴, because this is what we see and don't give attention to. We need to be very careful

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I also have some doubts for that news..we have wall geckos in the neighborhood and sometimes our cat chase it. But at my age I haven't heard such scenarios. But yeah, it's indeed brings bacteria but I wasn't sure about poison 🧐.

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Yeah, but like what people said, we don't know if these bacterias are deadly (to some extent) and Maybe they deposited enough on the food.

May God help us

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It's good i haven't come across any geckos in my life; looks very scary and menacing; these lizards are life threatening never knew about that; thanks for sharing this information with us.

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It seems you're living in a very nice place that's void of these animals. They're very common at where I live.

Thanks for reading ✨

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